John McCain Quotes

I don't know if you could ever say, quote 'mission accomplished,' as much as you could say 'Americans are out of harm's way.'

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• My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Culture

• I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Better
  • See

• India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me. She's sort of let me come into my own by myself, and I think that's just a testament to what my parents did in terms of raising us.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Raising

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Chinese
  • Factory
  • Laptop

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Organization
  • Level

• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

  Leo Rosten
  • Bad

• I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Reading

• The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Music

• What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Feeling

• If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Real
  • Single

• I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Children
  • Star

• Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Patient
  • Praises
  • Great Truth

• I was really inspired by lots of people I came across who were managing various illnesses through diet and lifestyle. I kind of figured, you know, if it worked for them, then I might as well try it and see if it works. So I did.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • People
  • Inspired

• Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

  

  Lionel Hampton
  • Together
  • Black

• I don't know if you could ever say, quote 'mission accomplished,' as much as you could say 'Americans are out of harm's way.'

  

  John McCain